Drutopia is an initiative to revolutionize the way we build online tools. We're combining the principles of software freedom, community ownership and intersectional politics to co-develop technologies that meet our needs and reflect our values.

Tools such as Squarespace and NationBuilder have lowered the cost for launching a website. However, these tools are limited in functionality and push people getting into web development for a cause into the dead end of proprietary services.

We intend to develop a framework upon which an ecosystem of open source distributions will flourish- meeting the unique needs of grassroots nonprofits, unions, food co-ops, small businesses and others making big change on small budgets. We will also use this framework to build a member-owned platform spanning multiple participating hosts. Members of the platform will drive the vision of the project including, crucially,guiding the development of new features.